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A musical piece I made mixing together the typical score from a movie with some eastern instruments. I also used a Philip Glass chord progression :)

Philip Glass

Philippe Jaroussky and his Ensemble Artaserse live, Versailles, 2009. You can find the whole concert on YouTube! (I cleaned up the audio a little.) 

The opera "(La) Merope" tells the story of Merope, the widow of King Cresfonte (greek: Kresphontes). Her husband and children were killed by his enemy, with only her son Epitide (greek: Aipytos) escaping this fate. Growing up in exile, Epitide falls in love with Argia. The plot culminates in Act III, when Epitide finds himself completely alone among the two people who he thought knew him best. 

Originally, the role of Epitide was sung by Farinelli. 

In "Sposa, non mi conosci", Epitide addresses his mother Merope and his lover, Argia, alternately, which makes for a slightly confusing text. Later, Vivaldi used the achingly beautiful piece for his pasticcio "Bajazet", but with an altered text: "Sposa, son disprezzata".

*Italian*
Sposa, non mi conosci? 
Madre, tu non mi ascolti. 
(Cieli che feci mai!)
E pur sono il tuo Cor, 
Il tuo figlio, il tuo amor 
La tua speranza.

Parla, ma sei infedel
Credi, ma sei crudel
Morir mi lascerai?
Oh dio! manca il valor
E la costanza.

*English translation*
And am I to my spouse unknown? 
Will not my mother lend an ear? 
Say, oh ye gods, what have I done,
Deserves a torture thus severe! 
I once was object of thy love; 
Thou plac'd thy hopes in me thy son. 

Speak; but thou dost faithless prove. 
Believe; but thou art cruel grown. 
What will ye both, than, let me die, 
Ye gods, I find I can't prevail: 
And now I feel my constancy,
And former courage both do fail. 

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Sposa, non mi conosci" from Geminiano Giacomelli's opera "La Merope"

"Gelido in ogni vena"
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, "Siroe"
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio

Countertenor + piano accompagniment: Philippe Jaroussky
Live on France Inter Nov 2023
Cosroes' aria (Act III, scene V)

Gelido in ogni vena
Scorrer mi sento il sangue,
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M'ingombra di terror.

E per maggior mia pena
Vedo che fui crudele
A un'anima innocente,
Al core del mio cor.

**
I feel my blood congealing run 
Thro' ev'ry vein, in ev'ry part, 
And the pale ghost of my dear son,
Strikes dread and terror to my heart. 

And still to add to greater woe,
The loyal innocent I've slain,
Of cruelty at length I know,
I, on myself, have fix'd the stain. 

Gelido in ogni vena" is an aria from a libretto by Pietro Metastasio*. It appears in two distinct operas: "Siroe" and "Farnace". (Farnace: 1927, "Gelido in ogni vena" was set to music by almost every composer in Baroque and beyond. The approaches are very different and interesting to hear. They range from Vinci's approach which is more pleasing than it is gripping to Vivaldi's soul-crushing benchmark of what a baroque aria can be.

The fellow Venetian Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (*1710) has a yet different approach. It's not quite clear when his version was composed, only that it happened before 1758. The dread that befalls Cosroe when he imagines seeing his deceased son whom he (justly) feels he has wronged that makes his blood run cold with fear and guilt, Ferrandini illustrates with fragile diminished jumps and subtle harmonic shifts and chromatics as Cosroe's world is coming apart at the seams, shifting and shaking while he tries to somehow smoothen the cracks and live on. More personal and intimate than Vivaldi's, Ferrandini's interpretation is sublime by its own merit.

*) (this seems more likely even though some sources credit Antonio Maria Lucchini, but it seems that his version didn't contain "Gelido ...")

The full radio podcast is still available here: 
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-grand-atelier/le-grand-atelier-du-dimanche-05-novembre-2023-5102248

Translation Source: Siroe, re di Persia. Drama per musica, etc.
1736, British library
https://www.google.de/books/edition/Siroe_re_di_Persia_Drama_per_musica_etc/NnkCXEdNB4wC?hl=de&gbpv=0

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Gelido in ogni vena" from Giovanni Battista Ferrandini's "Siroe"

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"When tragedy strikes our lives, time doesn’t heal wounds. Words of condolence are not enough to alleviate the painful heart, but once we start surrendering our wounded hearts to the magical beauty of music, we may just be able to find solace from within…" excerpt from SOLACE album notes.

Structured around 5 stages of grieving (Denial, Depression, Anger, Bargaining, Acceptance), SOLACE is a personal musical healing project I created to pay tribute to my father, who's life was taken away in a senseless gun violence on the south side of Chicago.  SOLACE stays close to my heart as I process and bring powerful closure to the past 25 years of silently grieving. I share SOLACE with millions of others suffering silently due to such unfortunate events. May the power of music bring us comfort and healing and enable us to seek compassion, forgiveness, appreciation and love for one another. Let's spread MUSIC and LOVE, not bullets and hatred, and make this world a better place. May God bless us all. Thank you!

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New England Conservatory students Zenas Hsu, Yina Tong, Livan perform Tchaikovsky's Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 50. Recroded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, February 14, 2013

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I am an amateur pianist with an ongoing passion for this musical instrument.  These are some favourite pieces, performed on a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano.

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